This Mysterious Skull Terrifies Anthropologists Because It Upends Everything

There is a forgotten skull from the center of India that sits in one of the most important places on Earth, not just geographically, but biologically, as if it was dropped into the exact corridor where three ancient human worlds were forced to touch. To the west and north stretched the cold-adapted range of the Neanderthals, from Europe through the Caucasus, Iran, Central Asia, and according to habitat modelling, northern India. To the east and south stretched the shadowy domain of the Denisovans, not one tribe, not one cave lineage, not one Siberian side branch, but a deep Asian human presence whose DNA still echoes most strongly far to the south, in island Southeast Asia, New Guinea, and Oceania.

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